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Optional Components You Can Install
Visual Studio 2008
There are a number of tools and components that can help developers and administrators work more efficiently, or that can add capabilities to applications. The following table describes these tools and components. Click the component name for installation instructions.
Integrates the Group Policy functionality of several tools into a single console so that administrators can perform core Group Policy tasks without needing multiple tools.
Provides a programming platform for creating and hosting applications that manage Microsoft Windows-based environments, and provides an integrated management user interface and administration model.
Installs your applications efficiently, and can provide your product with capabilities to advertise features without installing them, to install products on demand, and to add user customizations.
Enables system administrators and programmers to access Windows Update and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) to determine which updates should be applied to a computer, to download those updates, and to install them with little or no user intervention.
Provides documentation, sample code, and other tools that enable developers to build real-time communication applications, or to integrate real-time communication functionality into existing applications.
Enables system administrators to deploy the latest Microsoft product updates, and to fully manage the distribution of updates that are released through Microsoft Update to computers in their network.